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Shows that feel likeThe Walking Dead (2010–2022)

Sheriff's deputy Rick Grimes awakens from a coma to find a post-apocalyptic world dominated by flesh-eating zombies. He sets out to find his family and encounters many other survivors along the way.

If you loved The Walking Dead, the closest series we have are Spartacus (2010), High School of the Dead (2010) and The Last Ship (2014). All three share The Walking Dead's bleak feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Oz (1997).

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If The Walking Dead hit the spot, these will too

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Spartacus
2010–2013 · 3 seasons · STARZ
★ 8.4dramaStarz

Bleak and gritty in the same breath

The difference: Easier on the dread than The Walking Dead

Torn from his homeland and the woman he loves, Spartacus is condemned to the brutal world of the arena where blood and death are primetime entertainment.

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High School of the Dead
2010 · 1 season · AT-X
★ 7.1animation · action & adventure · dramaHulu

Ordinary people learning to kill because the alternative is dying

The difference: Anime pulp with fan service, and no moral weight

A small group of students at Fujimi High are fighting for their lives after surviving a zombie outbreak. It is up to Takashi to unite the survivors and escape the horrors that surround them. In this new world of the living dead...will they escape?

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The Last Ship
2014–2018 · 5 seasons · TNT
★ 7.4action & adventure · drama · sci-fi & fantasyNetflix

Civilization's remnant fighting to restart the world

The difference: Naval mission optimism

Their mission is simple: Find a cure. Stop the virus. Save the world. When a global pandemic wipes out eighty percent of the planet's population, the crew of a lone naval destroyer must find a way to pull humanity from the brink of extinction.

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Falling Skies
2011–2015 · 5 seasons · TNT
★ 7.1action & adventure · sci-fi & fantasy · dramaNetflix

Survivor bands holding family together after the fall

The difference: Alien occupation, resistance-focused

Falling Skies opens in the chaotic aftermath of an alien attack that has left most of the world completely incapacitated. In the six months since the initial invasion, the few survivors have banded together outside major cities to begin the difficult task of fighting back. Each day is a test of survival as citizen soldiers work to protect the people in their care while also engaging in an insurgency campaign against the occupying alien force.

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Chernobyl
2019 · 1 season · HBO
★ 9.3dramaMax

Dread-soaked drama, and it commits to that

The difference: Takes it somewhere less relentless than The Walking Dead does

The true story of one of the worst man-made catastrophes in history: the catastrophic nuclear accident at Chernobyl. A tale of the brave men and women who sacrificed to save Europe from unimaginable disaster.

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Attack on Titan
2013–2022 · 4 seasons · MBS
★ 9.1animation · sci-fi & fantasy · action & adventureHulu

The same two preoccupations: gore, and survival

The difference: Trades the grit of The Walking Dead for an angle of its own

100 years ago, the last remnants of humanity were forced to retreat behind the towering walls of a fortified city to escape the massive, man-eating Titans that roamed the land outside their fortress. Only the members of the Scouting Legion dared to stray beyond the safety of the walls – but even those brave warriors seldom returned alive. Those within the city clung to the illusion of a peaceful existence until the day that dream was shattered, and their slim chance at survival was reduced to one horrifying choice: kill – or be devoured!

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Fear the Walking Dead
2015–2023 · 8 seasons · AMC
★ 6.7action & adventure · dramaNetflixPrime Video

The same universe, watched from the beginning of the collapse

The difference: A family drama first, and it never finds this rhythm

What did the world look like as it was transforming into the horrifying apocalypse depicted in "The Walking Dead"? This spin-off set in Los Angeles, following new characters as they face the beginning of the end of the world, will answer that question.

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Z Nation
2014–2018 · 5 seasons · Syfy
★ 6.7mystery · action & adventure · dramaPeacock

A group crossing zombie country with a mission holding them together

The difference: Loose, gory and openly comic

Three years after the zombie virus has gutted the country, a team of everyday heroes must transport the only known survivor of the plague from New York to California, where the last functioning viral lab waits for his blood.

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Oz
1997–2003 · 6 seasons · HBO
★ 8.7crime · dramaMax

Both lean on relentlessness more than on action & adventure

The difference: Sits closer to crime than The Walking Dead does

The daily lives of prisoners in Emerald City, an experimental unit of the Oswald Maximum Security Prison where ingroups - Muslims, Latinos, Italians, Aryans - stick close to their mutual friends and terrorize their mutual enemies.

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The Last of Us
2023– · 2 seasons · HBO
★ 8.4dramaMax

Common ground: life after the end

Twenty years after modern civilization has been destroyed, Joel, a hardened survivor, is hired to smuggle Ellie, a 14-year-old girl, out of an oppressive quarantine zone. What starts as a small job soon becomes a brutal, heartbreaking journey, as they both must traverse the United States and depend on each other for survival.

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Vinland Saga
2019– · 2 seasons · NHK G
★ 8.9animation · war & politics · action & adventureNetflixPrime Video

One thread runs through both: gore

For a thousand years, the Vikings have made quite a name and reputation for themselves as the strongest families with a thirst for violence. Thorfinn, the son of one of the Vikings' greatest warriors, spends his boyhood in a battlefield enhancing his skills in his adventure to redeem his most-desired revenge after his father was murdered.

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War of the Worlds
2019–2022 · 3 seasons · Canal+
★ 6.5sci-fi & fantasy · drama

A depopulated world and the small groups still moving through it

The difference: European, slow and grieving — no factions to fight

When astronomers detect a transmission from another galaxy, it is definitive proof of intelligent extra-terrestrial life. The world’s population waits for further contact with bated breath. They do not have to wait long. Within days, mankind is all but wiped out by a devastating attack; pockets of humanity are left in an eerily deserted world. As aliens hunt and kill those left alive, the survivors ask a burning question – who are these attackers and why are they hell-bent on our destruction?

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